Understanding How to Run Environment Director from Different Environments

It is recommended that you create custom environments from the JDEPLAN environment on the deployment server using Environment Director. Doing so creates the environment in the planner databases and deploys it to the system data source. The environment must exist in the planner databases to apply software updates to the environment.

You cannot run Environment Director from the deployment environment. The deployment environment exists only on the deployment server. It uses the bootstrap tables (F98611 and F986101) from the Planner; the remainder of the system tables are in the system data source. This split will cause inconsistencies between the planner and system definitions.

If you run Environment Director as a standalone, you should run it from a Windows client. The environment will be created in the system data source and needs to be copied to the planner environment before software updates can be applied to the environment. The Copy System to Planner program (R9698611) automates the process of copying the environment definition from system to planner.